The crisis of medicine on the threshold of the 21 St century is a bitter reality facing both Russian and Western health care systems. The wide-spread notion of Western medicine as of something basically better is erroneous. ThereТs no difference IN PRINCIPLE between our rank-and-file city hospital and the best clinics in the world. The only difference is the provision of instruments, medicines and service. MEDICAL THINKING at the level of Уif there s a disease - there s a diagnosisФ and Уno disease - no diagnosisФ, which could really make a difference between these institutions is basically the same everywhere.

Moreover, the crisis of medicine is only one example of a crisis of medicine is only one example of a crisis of civilisation and the acme of a range of global issues facing humanity, from environmental to economic, issues on which the survival of man as a species depends.

Medicine, with the exception of its important aspect hygiene is making no contribution to the achievement of this aim. By a multitude of its non-physiological means and methods it cultivates new diseases, rather than promotes humankindТs genetic health. Of course, achievements of modern official medicine in the fields of resuscitation, surgery, combating of epidemic diseases, grave ailments in acute form are indubitable. Another plus is that many medicinal institutions are stuffed with new super-instruments and pharmacies abound in Уwonder drugsФ. But, on the one hand, a tremendous number of people feel bad though their polyclinics and hospitals can discover no ailments; while on the other hand, it often happens that a disease has been discovered but medicine has proved helpless. Such ailments include psoriasis, eczema, allergies, bronchial asthma, prostatite, ischemic heart disease, encephalopathies, grave anemias, neurosis, peptic ulcer, menТs impotency, infertility, womenТs masthopathies and myomas, etc.